"Protecting children is everyone's business" - It is especially worth thinking about how much really goes into making the protection of children and young people with intellectual disability everyone's business.

We lost an outstanding advocate for people with disability with the death of Jane Fraser in May. Jane was one of the leaders amongst the parent advocates who became very vocal in the 1980s in pursuing a good life in the community for all people with disability.

For some time, NSW CID and other intellectual disability groups have been advocating to the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) about the lack of direct input to the NDIA by people with intellectual disability and their advocates. This is very important since people with intellectual disability are over 60% of participants in the NDIS.